The aviation industry has constantly been innovating to manufacture light-weight carriers while simultaneously improving its strength and payload capacity. When a leading aircraft manufacturer, Airbus felt the same need while designing the jetliner of 2050—a lighter, more fuel efficient, eco-friendly, with more room for passengers, the need for innovation grew. With the development of this jetliner prototype, the crew focused onto developing an eco-friendly, cabin partition that separated passenger’s compartment with the aircrafts galley. “Along with meeting the design constraints, the cabin partition needs to be light, strong, and not more than an inch thick,” posits Airbus Emerging Technology and Concept group while designing their Airbus A320 cabin. To design and develop such a cabin partition, Airbus kept the challenge on the table of Autodesk Research, an Autodesk Lab to innovate and learn prototyping tools. Leveraging Autodesk’s generative approach and initiative in designing the cabin partition with 3D printing and AI algorithms, Airbus built the partition meeting all design requirements.

Talking about the latest technology initiative, Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk says, “Our main technology initiative is leveraging generative design and IoT. Further we take this approach towards the latest 3D printing technology, while injecting those initiatives onto the cloud.” Autodesk has been constantly innovative in helping their clients by combining decades of experience. Bass states, “Autodesk has been involved in, construction and engineering software for over long 30 years, and are positioning ourselves to lead the next generation of this kind of software.”

Autodesk offers SaaS solutions for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) enterprises, which can be hosted on cloud with cost effective annual subscriptions. By adding more value and flexibility, Autodesk designs essential tools, which are required for today’s businesses. Autodesk has a wide range of Building Information Modeling tools (BIM) which are developed for perfection. The tools include collection of important software, which are specifically built for BIM, starting from architectural designing, MEP to structure designing and construction.